Dictionary

color blind en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (of a person or animal) Unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors (usually red and green).
2. (figuratively, of a person or process) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color.
   • MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about being a colorblind society.[…] 2021 September 16, Bill Maher, 7:52 from the start, in Bill Maher on Getting Anger from Both Sides, Our Divided Country & Norm Macdonald’s Passing, Jimmy Kimmel Live!:
   • Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system. 2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183:
   • Don Demel[…] said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.” 2022 October 23, Michael H. Keller, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2022:

Forms

Deriveds

color blindness

Relateds

deuteranomaly · protanopia · protanomaly · deuteranopia · tritanopia · dichromacy · tritanomaly · monochromacy

Translations (34)

ro daltonist (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · cy lliwddall (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · ca daltonià (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · hi वर्णांध (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · tr renk körü (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · es daltónico (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · pt daltónico (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · ja 色覚異常の (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · fa کوررنگ (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · tl bulag sa kulay (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · vi mù màu (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · it daltonico (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · pt daltônico (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · lb faarweblann (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · da farveblind (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · cmn 色盲 (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · nl kleurenblind (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · ja 色盲の (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · no fargeblind (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · is litblindur (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · de farbenblind (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · fr daltonien (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · fi värisokea (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · pl daltonista (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · hu színvak (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · ru дальто́ник (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · mk далтони́ст (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · sv färgblind (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · ca daltònic (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · id buta warna (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · bg далтонист (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · gl daltónico (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · ro discromatopsic (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors) · oc daltonian (unable to distinguish between two or more primary colors)